Soane's Museum, art pod

So the latter part of last year ended up being a period of collaborating, pursuing potential new projects, a bit of freelancing, and dealing with orders of model kits for Christmas!
Another Studio and Finch & Fouracre took our first commission for a MONUmini, for the Sir John Soane's Museum.

This was a really complex and rewarding model to design. The museum has a very classic front facade, as can be seen in the image of the model above. However, it's also got a fascinating and intricate interior and rear to the building, so we developed a model where the top lifted off to reveal some of the internal details. You can see more and buy it here. It's a more complicated model that the other MONUminies, but it's worth it as it's a really great model.

We've also started discussing what buildings will be subject to the MONUmini treatment next.... We've got some exciting ideas!

This year has kicked off with some nice wee models, including one for ZM Architecture (photos to follow later) and this one for a student:

This was a design for a modular art display pod. While quite a simple form, it was a pretty tricky one to create. It was important that the curves were even over the 90˚, to give a fluid form to the design. I went about making this by cutting multiple curves on the CNC cutter at the MAKlab, then glueing these together in lengths the width of the pod (does that make any sense?!). ANYWAY, then it was clad in plasticard, affixed to the base, and lots of filler to blend the curves to the base.

As hinted at the start, there's some more collaborations and potential projects (some quite big and exciting!) in the pipeline, but I don't want to jinx things! Hopefully these'll come through and will be the content in my next post (given there's usually 6 months between posts, I've got plenty of time to get things sorted!).